Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Here is a disconcerting exchange between Pope Leo XIV and an EWTN reporter, when the Pope is asked to comment on the case of Jimmy Lai. As readers may know, Jimmy Lai is a Catholic entrepreneur and businessman, who persevered through years of threats to stand up for basic human rights and freedom against the[…]
A brief note on Saint David, the sixth-century monastic bishop, now patron, of Wales, born at an unknown date, but who likely died on this day, March 1st, in 589, based on what evidence we have. He was acclaimed bishop after an eloquent sermon he gave, denouncing the lingering heresy of Pelagianism – that we[…]
Hard to believe that it was a fateful thirteen years ago on this February 28th that Pope Benedict XVI resigned the papacy, the first Pope to do so since Gregory XII, who voluntarily stepped down towards the close of the Council of Constance (1415) to end what has come to be known as the ‘Great[…]
Well, it’s certainly convenient, as well as profitable: A funeral home in Vancouver that will kill you, then cremate your body – or, if you insist, they’ll bury you in one of those ‘ecologically insensitive’ coffins. Tut, tut. Why not just go straight to compost? The murder is less expensive than disposal of the resulting[…]
Nietzsche either warned or advocated – depending on your point of view – the transvaluation of all values, which is to say, the inversion of the moral law. After all, from his perspective, after the ‘death of God’, there was no moral law, and never has been. Christianity was invented to keep the masses subservient,[…]
The words themselves are chilling: ‘Pre-death approval by the coroner‘: And on it goes into the abyss: “17: The Chief Coroner may allow the removal of organs or tissue after the death of a person notwithstanding that death has not yet occurred if: (a) in the opinion of a physician the death of the person[…]
I’d like to say publicly that the students here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, under the direction of our staff and faculty, did a wonderful, even a quasi-miraculous, job with the musical Anastasia – the vivid acting, the coordinated harmonized singing, the choreography (from waltz to ballet), the scenes, the incredible live music[…]
Saint Apollonia (+249) was a virgin martyr put to death under the reign of Philip the Arab, just before the far more violent persecution under his successor, Decius. She was known as a ‘deaconess’, which was not an ordained order, for the Greek term diakonos simply means a ‘minister’, as in, those who helped in[…]
Saint Thomas Aquinas spent some time in the early 1260’s in the beautiful Italian city of Orvieto, perched way high up on a promontory, about an hour outside Rome. When I visited there years ago, we had to take a cable car to the top. It was here, in the glorious cathedral, that Thomas commissioned by[…]
Today’s feast of the great priest and doctor of the Church, Saint Thomas Aquinas, is also the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1988 striking down of the abortion laws put in place in 1969 under Pierre Elliot Trudeau. The court ordered parliament to come up with a new law, which it has never done, thus[…]
